Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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Their first encounters, like those of Malaparte’s other early American readers, came via pulpy Signet paperbacks in the nineteen-fifties.
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Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Her new novel, Villa E, about Modernist Irish designer Eileen Gray, has just come out in paperback.
—Jane Alison
june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
Will be available in paperback or digitally via Amazon .
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 June 2025
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Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Her new novel, Villa E, about Modernist Irish designer Eileen Gray, has just come out in paperback.
—Jane Alison
june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
Will be available in paperback or digitally via Amazon .
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for paperback
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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paperback
noun
pa·per·back
ˈpä-pər-ˌbak 
: a book with a flexible paper binding
paperback
adjective
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